The showers of the brand new changing-rooms not working didn't dampen his good mood, he was all smile after his match. He says he was solid from the beginning to the end, served well, varied his second serve nicely. And he likes the surface which suits him, the clay is fast and the bounce high.
He's lost three times to Nole last year without taking a set, but there were a couple of close sets. And he stresses he never played him on clay. The key for him will be to vary the height of his shots, play cross-court shots, vary his serve a lot and be aggressive.

The journalist says that Jim should work on his return for next week. Jim: "I've never seen a player return that well. I always was on the defensive, even on my serve, which I'm not used to." It was his toughest loss to Djoko, although the surface was supposed to favour him more. "It's disappointing for sure. He taught me a good lesson. I will rewatch it on video to draw lessons from it." We'll see in Munich next week if he's been studious.

The one thing I repeatedly noticed was how deep Djoker's returns were. Every second shot that Jeremy hit after his serve was off of his back foot. too good from the Serbian, but that ST shirt was awful.